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What, then, is the metaphysical manner? It is the style which uses argument, like a lawyer, to define a moral and social situation; and it seeks to discover the terms in which religious and ethical experience can be formulated. It is not concerned with mere vacillation between alternate states of feeling; it aims at unity and at the solution of a problem. The powers of the mind, which are employed by the metaphysical imagination, are the powers which, in ordinary life, are dedicated to the clarification of ideas, to the definition of terms, to the disentanglement of confusion. For the metaphysical poet an intellectual act may be a passion.